Scope and Contents Comprises family correspondence of the Blakeney family, including letters of William Blakeney RN, who worked in the cartographic section of the Admiralty, Robert 'Bertie' Blakeney and Edward Henry Blakeney. The correspondence has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct quotation. The catalogue has retained original historic language that may be offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. In order to reflect the original context of creation, such historic...

Scope and Contents The Mirrlees Papers consist of 23 boxes of papers and 3 large cartons of research notebooks that now form 8 series. The bulk of the material, including most notebooks, is research for her biography of Sir Robert Cotton. 'A fly in amber', vol I, was published in 1962; vol II, 'The lost pearl', finished but not published, is also in the archive. There are research notebooks on other topics, travel albums, and articles. There is also poetry, in particular 'Moods and Tensions' (extensive...